Built for hard ground
Sized for the crossing in front of us
From a 19mm water service under a lawn to a 500mm casing under a highway, WM brings the guidance systems, rigs and field experience to steer a bore through the ground the Maritimes actually has.
Capability at a glance
Casing diameter — down to a 19mm water service
Single-crossing bore length
Monolithic systems for corrosive soils
Cold-weather drilling procedures in place
How trenchless works
We go under, not through.
A drill rig steers a bore in a shallow arc between two small pits — pulling your pipe underneath roads, rivers and yards without tearing them open.
Cross-section · not to scale — swipe to pan on a phone
Steer the arc
A tracked head is pushed from the entry and steered along a shallow curve, tracked to the surface the whole way.
Open the hole
A reamer is pulled back through, enlarging the bore to comfortably clear the diameter of your pipe.
Pull the pipe
Your pipe is fixed at the exit and drawn back through the reamed hole in one continuous length.
Built for difficult ground
North-eastern Nova Scotia hands you clay and till over gravel, cobble and sandstone — often in the same crossing. Guidance systems track the bore head to the surface the whole way, so the arc can be steered around what the ground throws up rather than through it.
Monolithic HDPE stands up to corrosive soils with no buried joints to fail, and cold-weather procedures keep crossings moving through the winter. Where the unforeseen turns up mid-bore, the crew adapts tools and technique to keep the job on time and on budget.
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Have specs already? Send pipe size, length, depth and soil and we’ll come to the call ready.